The Downtown Hotel in Dawson City was forced to put a backup toe into service after an American swallowed the toe in the famous Sourtoe Cocktail. It was not the first time the toe has been swallowed, but it was the first time it was done deliberately.

Marc Thibault, commanding officer of the CCGS Amundsen, Daniel Dubé, a helicopter pilot, and Klaus Hochheim, an Arctic scientist affiliated with the University of Manitoba were killed in September when their helicopter went down in the Arctic Ocean near Banks Island.

A Buffalo Airways DC-3 made a hard landing at the Yellowknife airport in August after one of its engines caught fire. (CBC)

A Buffalo Airways DC-3 carrying 21 passengers and three crew made a hard landing at the Yellowknife airport in August after its right engine burst into flames, 30 seconds after take-off. Four months later, the right engine of a Buffalo Airways C-46 caught fire while taxiing down the runway at the Yellowknife airport. None of the crew on board was hurt.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is greeted by a group of Canadian Rangers as he arrives in Whitehorse, Yukon, for the first stop on his annual northern Canada tour.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper started his annual summer tour of Canada's North in Whitehorse with an attack on both Opposition parties, test-driving themes expected to carry the Conservatives into the next election.

A new study on global warming pinpointed the probable dates for when cities and ecosystems around the world will regularly experience hotter environments the likes of which they have never seen before.

A 38-year-old Nunavut mother was sentenced to five days in jail and probation of two years after telling her 17-year-old teenage daughter numerous times to kill herself. The teen attempted suicide numerous times; two of those attempts were immediately after her mother counselled her to do so​.

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